Anthony Bourdain Praises Taco Trucks
Contra Costa Times reporter Jenny Slafkosky recently sat down with globe-trotting foodie Anthony Bourdain to discuss his new show in Discovery. The venue: two of the Oakland’s best taco trucks. Here’s what he had to say:
“Bogus Mexican food fills me with rage,” he said, chowing down on a carne asada taco from El Grullo taco truck. “It’s so far removed from what they eat in Mexico but this is the real thing.” When it became apparent I was neglecting my al pastor taco in order to take notes (why did I think I could eat tacos and take notes at the same time?) he politely ate it for me. Then we headed down to Mi Grullense in the Goodwill parking lot where he got the cabeza and I went for the tripas (he politely held the tripas taco for me until the interview was over and I could eat it). Chowing down on cabeza with the traffic whizzing by, he was a man in his element. And, for the record, he said the tacos at both trucks were great.
It’s good to know there’s someone in the television chef universe who appreciates good tacos…
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(2 tacos)
godoggo wrote:
Way back when my long-lost, obviously insane French chick came to visit me here, I started paying more attention to food quality than I normally do, and one rule of thumb I came up with is that, at a cheapo Mexican place, if you see a lot of weird cow parts on the menu, it’s often a sign that they’ll use any old crap for meat. But presumably Bourdain knows what he’s talking about.
Posted on 04-Dec-07 at 1:46 pm | Permalink
jarod wrote:
Check out Bourdain in Piedras Negras here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr4ZSBg_qy0
Posted on 05-Dec-07 at 6:20 am | Permalink
Italian Woman wrote:
We have the the taco trucks here in the Seattle area, but we call them taco wagons. They’re all over the eastern part of the state, because Mexicans have been coming here for many years to pick the crops. I like the tripe tacos. Yum.
Posted on 05-Dec-07 at 9:16 am | Permalink